On Structure / Ensemble Pamplemousse / Rama Gottfried: concert and installation
On Structure / Ensemble Pamplemousse / Rama Gottfried: concert and installation
Outdoor installation:
Rama Gottfried, Interference Clouds -- an outdoor installation for five FM transmitters, micro-controller, MaxMSP, headphones, and portable FM radio. Weather permitting, the installation will be active before and after the concert, and during intermission. (Commissioned in part by the ExiTrip, free103point9 Transmission Arts project)
Set I: On Structure
Symbiosis I -- for lasers objects and four channel tape
Rot blau I -- for two performers: conjoined
Nystagmus -- for eyeballs, performers and computer
Rot blau II -- for two performers: separated
Intermission
Set II: Ensemble Pamplemousse performs solos by Rama Gottfried
Bx51 -- for Natacha Diels, amplified flute
Prototype 1,2011** -- for Jessie Marino, bowed electronics, transducer, and violoncello
On Structure is a sound- centric performance duo featuring Jessie Marino and Natacha Diels. The New York based ensemble uses improvised and composed sounds (and the fluctuation of these sounds) to brew transferable art pieces which alter the realms of the performer, audience or space itself.
Composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2002 by Natacha Diels and Rama Gottfried, to provide a focal point for like-minded creators with a thirst for sonic exploration. The ensemble is a close-knit group of divergent artistic personalities, emergent from training in disparate musical fields. Their collective love for the exquisite in all sonic realms leads the ensemble to persistently discover new vistas of sound at the frayed edges of dissective instrumental performance technique. Compositions aggregate each member's unique virtuosic talents into extraordinary magical moments. In the flexible moments of performance, the ensemble weaves together shapes of resonance, clusters of glitch, skitters of hyper action, and masses of absurdity into impeccable structures of unified beauty.
Rama Gottfried is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley in the Music and New Media departments, and is associated with UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).
** This is the UC Berkeley premiere of Prototype 1,2011, a study on musical human-computer-instrument interaction and the implementation of CNMAT's newly developed RBFI multidimensional scaling interface.